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Social Darwinism, an important intellectual force of the time, said that there are "young" and "manly" nations, with a natural right to expand and conquer others in de- cline-that there is an organic pro- gression in the lives of nations which it is futile to resist. Mr. Reagan and his associates, and the American people, do not today be- lieve such things. A policy of inter- vention in Nicaraguan domestic affairs must be justified in the language of liberty and natIonal self-determina- tion, in which Americans do, in prin- ciple, believe. The contradiction may not be apparent to Mr. Reagan him- self, who is not a rigorous thinker, or to his supporters in the press, but con- tradiction it nonetheless is, and it has a corrosive effect. That Mr. Reagan's policy is chal- lenged in Congress and in the public debate is inevitable and necessary, but is unlikely to change much. The con- gressional refusal to fund the Contras may inhibit but cannot halt Mr. Rea- gan's determination to make the San- dinista authorities submit. There is unofficial money available. The execu- tive in the American system has wide constitutional authority to act, in for- eign relations, outside the restraints available to Congress, which in any case is seriously divided on this matter. A week after the House vote that killed United States aid to the Contras, the Administration, by executive or- der, imposed a total embargo on trade with Nicaragua and terminated the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation which had existed between the two countries. Mr. Reagan de- clared "a national emergency" because of the "extraordinary threat to the national security" posed by Nicaragua. The Sandinista leaders, by their intol- erance and ideological intoxication, risk eventually destroying their own position, as Nicaraguan leaders have persistently done during the country's intermittent episodes of freedom. Mr. Reagan walks the path of his prede- cessors. History is with him. The Nicaraguans know this. Their destiny is to submit. "Like bone to the human body, and the axle to the wheel, and the song to a bird, and air to the wing, thus is liberty the essence of life," J osé Martí, the Cuban poet and patriot, wrote. "Whatever is done without it, is im- perfect." -WILLIAM PFAFF 95 ". . . the greatest musical dictionary ever published:' Charles Rosen. N.Y. Review of Books to , ' v " . ,j '$ . :! J \ , ". , .;y:-'. ;" ".... , ,'J ,. , , , m : :N %W :.' :. "= ":"=t ... t )- ::. ;;>." 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